Tom Daley officially put your very best date night to shame yesterday by surprising his boyfriend, Dustin Lance Black, with a romantic sunset dinner on the top of a mountain.
The 20-year-old Olympic babe apparently organized the date himself and managed to keep it a secret until the two boarded their ride — a helicopter — yesterday afternoon.
Both posted photos of their #MountainTopPicnic on social media yesterday, leaving out all the cutesy make out selfies they probably also took. Ugh!
“Thank you @tomdaley1994 for the most magical date night ever.” DLB said on Facebook.
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And thank you, boys, for officially being the cutest gay couple ever.
A day before his mountaintop date night, Tom visited Busch Gardens with his bff Sophie Lee. Check out the adorable besties riding Falcon’s Fury together below:
Ottoman
Of course it’s not true love unless you share your staged romantic dates with your Twitter followers.
Mr. Z
They’re so cute. Tom is acting like any other person his age as far as sharing things about his life on social media, and DLB is obviouosly very happy and wants to share that as well. Don’t begrudge them their happiness.
Spike
Please keep the Tom Daley posts in which he is not not wearing a speedo to a minimum please.
IcarusD
Ahhh, to be young, beautiful, AND have money. Sigh.
Ottoman
@Mr. Z: Exactly what proof do you have of their happiness? All we have proof of is their desperate fame whorishness. And DLBs hypocrisy for getting pissy over leaked photos of himself in bed while pimping out photos of his current relationship to strangers. They are both milking, get it?, their modicum of fame in the hopes of remaining famous or landing better gigs.
Mr. Z
@Ottoman Go watch any of Tom’s interviews, read DLB’s interviews, read their social media, look at their pictures, and look at how much they’ve both sacrificed for each other. They’ve been together for a year and a half now. Things are clearly going well. I’m sorry that you don’t see it.
Stache99
@Ottoman: Forgot about that which makes your point spot on.
Stache99
Actually, comment meant for Mr Z..
capsule
Why shouldn’t Tom be happy and post about a romantic date on his twitter. ?We have enough hetero-normativity thrown at us by straight celebs. So sad that so many gay celebs can’t acknowledge their sexual identity and their relationships the same way straight celebs are doing that all the time. No wonder, so many gay young people are still having so many and so severe problems, with an extreme lack of self-conscious, young gay role models. ?
Milk
@IcarusD: He only shot to fame recently from his diving. At most two years. His advertisement endorsement can’t be that lucrative unless he was born in a wealthy family. Relatively speaking I don’t think he is that wealthy compare to his boyfriend. If anything they are certainly famous.
Paul F
I watched the video, I think enough sweat poured off my palms and soles of my feet for Tom to swim in. Pity I didn’t know he was in town, I could have screeched in terror in his other ear to make it in stereo.
Silas Wegg
Is Tom the sugar daddy in this relationship? DLB hasn’t done any notable work since Milk and a few episodes of Big Love.
Ottoman
@Mr. Z: yes and Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman also looked like a happy pair for five years–3 times longer than this couple you seem to be able to mind read. or did they have an arranged marriage and it was all a sham? Please tell us how you know what’s in people’s hearts via Instagram pics and media interviews. I have no idea if they’re happy and in love or one or both of them have alterior motives, but neither do you. There is significant evidence though that famous people who shove their relationships into the spotlight on purpose do so for fame or to hide something, not because of some inner fulfillment they’re getting from their partner.
Posting stuff like this among friends is one thing, posting them on public feeds for strangers to ogle and comment over is another.
Alan down in Florida
@Ottoman: I find it sad that you feel the need to voice your cynicism in a manner that makes you sound both jealous and bitter. Guess what? Tom and Dustin don’t have anything to prove to anyone in the gay community concerning their relationship – certainly not you.
Curtispsf
@Alan down in Florida: Perhaps you’d be happier if Tom Daley and DLB had their relationship “in the closet” where no one else could see them; only then would “we” know whether there relationship was true or not.
Don’t begrudge them their happiness OR their decision to share their relationship as they see fit. It’s no different than stuff that heterosexual “so-called” celebrities do. Why the need to engage in gay tear down? No one’s forcing you to read about them. Get a life.
Curtispsf
@Alan down in Florida: SO SORRY Alan, my comment was intended for Ottoman…NOT YOU!
Milk
@Silas Wegg: I check both of their net worth. They are pretty even. Tom is worth $2 million and Dustin is at $5 million. Richer than average person but certainly consider poor by Hollywood standard. One has the age on his side and the other has potential to go commercial on his movies to make the big bucks.
AxelDC
Headline: Celebrities with lots of money are better than you because of conspicuous spending.
(I’d be ticked at my bf for wasting that kind of money.)
AxelDC
@Curtispsf: I thought they were a cuter couple sharing a bottle of water after Daley’s practice than by acting like Hollywood royalty and blowing a ton of dough on one silly date.
Saint Law
The investment some people make in people they’ve never met and never will is fucking weird.
Daniel-Reader
I give their PR firms kudos for setting up this relationship. It is about time gay celebrities follow the same plans as straight celebrities in milking the publicity machine. That is equality in action.
OrchidIslander
@Saint Law: Couldn’t agree with you more. Its the confluence of social media, publicists and people having no lives of their own.
TrueWords
@Milk: what you are worth and what you have a TWO VERY DIFFERENT things…
Rob Seneca
@Ottoman: @Ottoman: You sound like a bitter old queen.
Rob Seneca
@Milk: He was worth $2 million dollars by the time he was 19. Money he earned himself. He is very intelligent earning all A’s and an A+ on his O levels and that while training for the Olympics. That was the year after his father died of cancer. He has just begun his life. Who knows what he will be able to achieve. Wish him happiness. We all deserve that.
Rob Seneca
@AxelDC: The helicopter trip and picnic cost $399. It is one of many options for tourists in LA. That is hardly conspicuous spending by any standards.
Rob Seneca
@Mr. Z: Yes, I agree with you. DLB is and always has been a tireless activists for LGBT rights. He is highly regarded for his personal integrity. Tom shows the same commitment to honesty coming out publicly at the beginning of his career could have cost him dearly. I am grateful they share their relationship as much as they do. How many role models do you LGBT people have?
blueshirt409
Best boyfriend ever? For planning a good date? Nah, that title goes to the guy who brings you a washcloth when you’ve been throwing up from the flu in the middle of the night, rather than sleeping through it. Or the guy who overcomes his misgivings and agrees to get a dog. Or the one who goes with you to visit your crazy mom and helps you get through her b.s. Or the one who goes with you to that same crazy mom’s funeral, despite the fact that she was never anything but mean to him.
Planning good dates when you have a lot of money is the easy part of being a good boyfriend. It’s sticking through the tough times and knowing when to put everything aside and just be there for you that makes a guy the best boyfriend ever.
stanhope
The lies you tell…….no hate about the date. Cutest couple ever….no. Michael Sam and Vito Camisano would get that title first. The aggressive way you guys promote DLB/TD makes the entire thing suspect.
Scribe38
@blueshirt409: I agree that those are the things that really count. I also think a romantic jester from time to time goes a long way towards bringing a couple together and reminding the other person you are on their mind. Straight married guys would get way more BJs if from time to time they did the same things they did to get their wife (flowers, dates, dinners, etc). I got an awesome dude, the type who will change my oil in six inches of snow, so I know he cares. However, he just isn’t romantic and at times it bums me out a bit.
BRENT
@Ottoman: @Ottoman: Sour and embittered, the toxic calling-card of the loser-queen.
BRENT
@OrchidIslander: What is the point of making statements without the slightest evidence to back them up? One is intrigued.
Tackle
@blueshirt409: Spot on. Excellent points made without putting Tom’s/Dustin’s relationship down. Classy…
enlightenone
@capsule: Not exactly sure what you are trying to say here: “No wonder, so many gay young people are still having so many and so severe problems, with an extreme lack of self-conscious, young gay role models?”
But as a gay man and parent of a gay child, I would not want a post-teen and a 40 year old (salacious private/pubic sex life with post-adolescent boys) as a role model! Social media blessing and curse for gays!
Mr. Z
@blueshirt409: “Planning good dates when you have a lot of money is the easy part of being a good boyfriend. It’s sticking through the tough times and knowing when to put everything aside and just be there for you that makes a guy the best boyfriend ever.”
Well lucky for them they have both. They have the money to do extavagant things like this, but are also very grounded, like when Tom flew all the way from London to LA to be with DLB when his mother died, even though Tom was missing crucial training right before the World Championships by being there. Quit crapping all over this couple just because you personally don’t understand or approve of them.
Milk
@Saint Law: Hahahaha I dont understand all this self appointed CPA either. Maybe it’s their imaginary money Tom and Dustin are spending on.
Milk
@Rob Seneca: Oh I’m not judging his spending habit at all. I was just curious what his net worth is compare to Dustin. So often we assume the younger one always going after the older man for money and status. He is more than capable of being on his own with or without Dustin.
Milk
@enlightenone: First of all there’s nothing salacious about Tom and Dustin relationship. Maybe you have come across their nude pics or sexual coitus. I’m pretty savvy web surfers and pretty surprise that I have miss them. Their relationship that’s been posted across internet are no different from any celebrities out there. For you to pick on them seems a bit homophobic if not agism in my opinion, considering someone who is a gay parent who has a gay son. These two celebrities are not your children, you do not know them personally therefore you do not get to judge whether they are suitable role model to the gay community or society in general. As a parent you should not look up to any celebrity as role model for your son. Because everyone has flaws and no one should be a role model except you the parent. More important teach your son to admire the good quality of the celebrities. Like the skills of a pro sports athletes. The generosity of say Angelina Jolie on children in poor countries and Leonardo DiCaprio environment cause. Or even a specific role they played. Teach your son not to idolize or worship any celebrities in their entirety. I do not know Tom and Dustin either, unless there are other side of them that have not yet being expose, so far from what I read of them are no different from what I read from other celebrities. At least it’s way less negative by celebrity industry standard.
enlightenone
@Milk: A lot of needless banter if you read my comment as written! FYI: I don’t look to celebrities to be a role model for my child, or me, but as media figures they do leave impressions since we as humans get our knowledge everywhere. For your lack of reading comprehension skills and not being informed – salacious was referring to DLB’s “scandal,” pre-bisexual/now gay Tom that he suffered via social media! Use your “savvy web surfers” skills before you comment again! For the record, I admire and respect Leo and Angelina/Brad as does my successful, well-adjusted, “transgender” 28 year old son. And no, you don’t get to tell me how to parent! Who is the one “judging” someone you don’t know?
Cam
Will they be posting the pictures of Black’s face when he gets the bill and realizes Delay used his credit card to pay for everything? lol
JimboinLA
Any bitter jealous misfortunates merely need to watch the documentary ‘Chris and Don’ “that chronicles the lifelong relationship between author Christopher Isherwood and his much younger lover, artist Don Bachardy.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_%26_Don
blueshirt409
@Mr. Z: I didn’t “crap[] all over this couple just because [i] personally don’t understand or approve of them.” I expressed no opinion whatsoever about them as a couple or as people, nor do I have one.
If I’m “crapping all over” anything, it’s Queerty for crowning Tom Daley as the “Best Boyfriend Ever” merely for planning a good, extremely expensive date. This is fawning adoration, not journalism. The recurring media portrayal that spending money is what makes someone a good person bothers me. Call it the “Best Date Ever,” if you want, because it certainly is a good date. However, in my opinion, one great date does not make someone the best boyfriend ever.
I have no idea what these two people have done outside of planning this date and a vague understanding that these two are celebrities in different fields. Maybe Tom Daley is the best boyfriend ever, but planning one good date doesn’t earn anyone that title in my book. If Queerty wanted anyone to buy that headline, it could have at least bothered to give us a little more information here about how Tom Daley behaves toward Dustin Lance Black.
I had hoped for a little substance about a gay relationship, instead the article delivered superficial pap. For all any of us really know from this article, Queerty’s characterization of their relationship could be spot on, or it could be terribly far from the mark.
Milk
@enlightenone: You have a successful, well adjusted, “transgender” 28 year old son despite DLB salacious scandal. So what’s the problem with how these celebrities behave then? Apparently they did nothing to influence your way of raising children.
Tackle
@blueshirt409: Another bullseye!
enlightenone
@Milk: The MILK has gone sour!